Product Details

• Actors: Colette Crawford
• Directors: Byrd Productions
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Seattle Holistic Center
• DVD Release Date: February 21, 2002
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002RTJAI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,762 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the leading expert on prenatal yoga, Colette Crawford, R.N., a program designed to support women through pregnancy and ease labor and delivery. Uses breath awarenss and asana practice to strengthen the body, increase flexibility, decrease pain and discomfort, improve circulation and aid digestion. Crawford is an excellent prenatal instructor....this is a well-rounded program for pregnant women ...in their first, second, or third trimester. Yoga Journal.(DVD)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very accessible., November 29, 2005

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Stephanie (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yoga for Pregnancy, Labor & Birth (DVD)

I did not practice yoga regularly prior to pregnancy -- I had been to 5 or 10 classes in my life. However, by my second trimester everything hurt: feet, back, hamstrings. I picked this up at Buy Buy Baby and found that by just doing the short section at the begining (35 minutes or so) 2 or 3 times a week, all my pains were gone. Although there is a lot of focus on the pregnancy in the DVD, my husband will sometimes do it with me and he reaps benefits.

This best thing about the DVD is s that it's so approachable to do just a half hour in your living room and immediately feel better. I also like it that the pregnant women in the video are not little skinny pregnant women -- they are full and fleshy. The production value is also much better than the other (Australian) yoga video I picked up.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Beginners, June 11, 2006

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L. M. Billingsley (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yoga for Pregnancy, Labor & Birth (DVD)

I've dabbled in yoga over the past few years, but usually I stick with pilates. Tired of my normal pilates videos I decided to give this a try when I found it on the shelf at Borders.
This DVD is great for relaxing. The poses are very easy and it moves at a great pace. My sciatica problems have been reduced and other aches and pains have gone away.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Yoga, some talk a bit distracting, February 10, 2007

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Chiara Glut (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yoga for Pregnancy, Labor & Birth (DVD)

This DVD was useful while I was pregnant. The positions were good and she did a good job of explaining how to get into them and I enjoyed the meditation at the end. What keeps me from giving it a great review is one phrase that she kept repeating that was a bit distracting and by the third or fourth time, was making me laugh: She kept saying, "This can help the baby get into the right position, whatever that means."
"Whatever that means"? It sounded like she was avoiding being judgmental toward a baby being "bad" for getting in the "wrong" position or something like that. Since there IS such a thing as an ideal position for birth (head down, occiput anterior, etc.), and yoga positioning is really good at getting babies there, the "whatever that means" seemed really funny. Of course a well-positioned baby isn't a better person than a mal-positioned one, but it will come out a heck of a lot more easily, and isn't that part of what we're doing the yoga for?
Overall, I enjoyed using the DVD and it was a good purchase, but that element was bothersome to me. Likely it wouldn't be to most women.